Equus
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Bret has really pulled back together through the day, it was poorly vertically stacked earlier but tonight seems well stacked with robust convective bursting over the center and banding in multiple quads. Forward speed has dropped from 21 to 17 through the day; those fast low level trades were carrying it along much faster than the weak mid-level flow and imparting some shear, but now that it's slower that shear has relaxed just enough to let it take advantage of the highest oceanic heat content it will feel before starting to get sheared apart in a few days. Might near hurricane force IF this trend continues into the day but that's a big if.